Dianne Stockbridge

Biography

I have always had a love for drawing/painting, winning my first award
for a bird drawing, when I was still in Primary school and a member of
Victoria's Gould League of Bird Lovers.

In the last 10 years I have become very interested in Botanical
Art and have attended many classes with Chris Payne and Michael Gill,
Helen Fitzgerald, Susannah Blaxhill and more recently with Noel Ford and
Janet Matthews. I am also currently doing an external Botanical Art
course with Leonie Norton. Janet has brought me back to birds and I am
enjoying this new adventure.

I have also produced some Christmas cards for Wildcare for
fundraising, these included possums, wallabies, wombats, echidnas and
frogs, all in various antics regarding a Christmas theme.

I also enjoy being a wildlife carer and a keen conservationist, where living on a bush block I can practice everyday.